2. Magnified Images

3. Can you guess what this is?

4. Answer It’s a monarch butterfly wing magnified 50x.

5. Can you guess? A common music cd magnified many times.

6. Can you guess? A soap bubble!

7. Why magnify? Magnification helps scientists study things that are too small to be seen with the human eye. Hand lenses, magnifying glasses, and microscopes allow for a range of enlarged views. The scanning electron microscope has allowed scientists to study things at the atomic level.

8. Owl feather – 50X

9. Cow eye cells - 100X

10. Blood cells Human hair

11. Dust mites in carpet dirt

12. Mosquito - 200X

13. Human cells enhanced with fluorescence

14. A close up of a moth’s eye

15. Magnified 5,250 times

16. One micrometer

17. .040 mm - Pollen